iced tea
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- noun
- /aɪst ti/
- On a warm afternoon, nothing beats a tall glass of iced tea filled with ice.
- drink iced tea
- glass of iced tea
- cup of iced tea
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- Who put iced tea in my liquor flask?
- I can go for like a Peach iced tea, conventional builders tea.
- And then I would say really cold, slightly sweetened iced tea on a really hot day.
- It reminds me of the Arizona iced teas.
- Breakfast burrito or breakfast sandwich Sandwich sandwich Lemonade or iced tea.
- That's why Arnold Palmer's signature drink is half iced tea, half lemonade, stirred with a giant swizzle.
- The woman sitting at the table here went like, oh, is it passion fruit iced tea?
- And yes, there's cat shelving and and such so the cats can have a good time while we have our iced tea.
- And in California, they started replacing it with passionfruit iced tea, which tastes like someone took a scented candle, just dunked it in warm water.
Examples
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"Yes, let me get you some iced tea," her father announced.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'll have an iced tea.
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Would you like an iced tea?" He looked over at her.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'll have a Long Island iced tea.
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I'd like a Long Island iced tea, please.
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"And I have to sit here quietly," my mother said, "and drink my iced tea."
Fiction book (1997) -
Harry comes out on the porch with a pitcher of iced tea in his hands.
Fiction book (1998) -
At home, I sit on the porch swing and drink iced tea from a mason jar.
Fiction book (1994) -
Francesca sits on the front porch with some iced tea, trying to cool herself off.
Fiction book (1995) -
Hannah has a half-eaten salad and a half-drunk glass of iced tea on the table in front of her.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A hot or cold drink made by putting dried leaves in water
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A cold drink of tea poured over ice, often with lemon or sugar
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Tea left in sunlight to steep and served cold with ice
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Surface Forms
Morphology
iced + tea
The meaning 'a cold drink made from tea served with ice' is directly derivable from combining 'iced' (made/served with ice) and 'tea'. The adjectival '-ed' formation and the adjective + noun pattern are common and have clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows 'ice' and 'tea' would readily understand this phrase.
Etymology
Iced tea comes from a simple picture: you make hot tea and then add ice, so the tea becomes iced. So the name shows the drink is 'tea' served cold with ice.